Thursday, May 20, 2010

I love the word "extravaganza" and use it every opportunity I get. Makes everything fancy. Okay, focus.

I am so excited to be posting right now! For a few reasons, first Park City Girl AMY is having her blogger's quilt festival which we've been waiting and waiting for! You must go check out all the amazing quilts people are making.

Speaking of amazing, my mommy designed this quilt for my sweet baby boy! Isn't it precious? I love everything about it, the sailboats, the water...the colors. I adore.

Megan and I are so lucky to have such a talented mom, let me tell you she put so much thought and time into every bit of this quilt, and I am so grateful. It will live through our family for generations to come I'm sure. And yes, this bad boy will soon make it to the printing press to be one of our patterns :)

The next reason I am so excited to be writing this post? We are launching our new blog, bold, we know. Bless our hearts, but please indulge us. We are absolutely giddy over it.

It's called QuiltStory and it's a place where we want to share other's amazing quilts and stories that go along with them. We want readers to come and admire as well as quilters to make their submissions. Please go and check it out!

Finally, the last reason I'm excited and quite frankly why you will soon be excited, we're having a FABULOUS GIVEAWAY (extravaganza)!

Choose 5, count it 1-2-3-4-5!!! of our patterns!! And for those of you maybe a little intimidated by the quilting, you could also win:

A stack of 5 fat quarters to do what your heart desires. Now the giveaway for the fabric is only on our Quiltstory blog, however we are giving away 5 patterns on this blog AND quiltstory! So basically there is eleventy billion ways to win.

How?

- 1 entry per comment

- 3 entries per follower

- 5 entries if you submit a quilt and story to Quiltstory (details there)

Please state in your comment(s) what you have done, and make sure to enter both blogs! We will announce our giveaway winner at the end of the quilt festival, May 28th.

that is a lovely quilt, my sons would love the sailboats! we just bought a small sailboat last summer and they are learning how to sail this summer, so sails are very much the 'in' things in our family :-)Kristinawww.priscillacraft.blogspot.com

I just became a follower! Your patterns are SUPER cute, I am such a sucker for baby quilts. They are my absolute favorite quilts to make! Beautiful work on the sailboat quilt, I couldn't love it more!Kimhttp://jimnkim.blogspot.com/

So cute! I love the use of patterns to create the "look" of sky and sea. Love it! Is the "tree" quilt in your header available as a pattern too?? :) I have a thing for trees lately....and birds. :D Thanks for hosting a giveaway! Best of luck on your new blog!!Blessings,Heather@TripleBlessing

Well am I glad you posted to the quilt festival - I LOVE this quilt, and I love your blog! I'm glad to know this will be a pattern at some point, it's wonderful! I had to become a follower and now I'll go to QuiltStory!

Hi! Just look at all the visitors from the Blogger's Exhibition and from all over the world! How cool! I love this sailboat quilt! Love the almost monocramatic colors and will hop on over to your new site! Congrats!

hm.."Extravaganza" definitely makes things sound "extra-ordinary" :o) I love the beautiful sailboat quilt your mom made! You can just imagine setting sails on those pretty blue seas.(Ah! my goal is to get my unfinished quilt tops, etc done for our future grandbabies!) We are very blessed with the quilts that my mom made for our children and cherish them especially since she is no longer here, but they represent her time and love spent in making them.

So happy to finally get my post up for the Quilt Extravaganza...it is about our two daughters who are sweet sisters...like you two :o) And unfinished quilts that initially were for them...but looks like they won't be done until their firstborns are born!

I love the idea of your new blog-Quilt Story! I just went over and became a follower...

Blessings & Aloha!(I am hopping over from the Quilt Festival...hope you get a chance to stop by :o) Also...as a novice quilter...I am taking this opportunity to ask quilter's what type of sewing machine do you use? )

Fetching logo for your new blog! The sailing ship sand castle story of a quilt is delightful. Glad to have found your expressive portal. I'll sail in to visit from time to time for visual rest and inspiration. Thank you. Jeannette